Our group presented on MentiMeter.com, https://www.mentimeter.com/ and we were asking how it could be useful for us as teachers in our respective subjects (Art, Socials, English, Spanish and French) It was a great, diverse tool that we all found meaningful uses for. Above I have included a custom HTML link that plays our slide deck embedded from Google slides.

The relationship I was focused on in regards to my teaching and learning processes mostly had to do with gathering information and feedback from students. Below are some images that I screenshotted and imported that summarize my portion of the presentation, asking students to complete a survey at the end of a unit on abstract painting – in order to inform me on whether students found the unit successful or interesting. I think this will be an extremely valuable way to engage with students and build my semesters as a new teacher!

Some of the pros include that the free version of Mentimeter is very useful and diverse, it stores information and lets you have accesss to it as long as you stay logged in with the email you created your survey with. The cons are that the free version only allows you to have up to 50 participants a month, which is bearly 2 classes full – so asking multiple classes for feedback isnt possible.

I think if I was using this solely to gather information from students, I would probably just use another free service like google forms. Mentimeter is fun and cool, and i like the customizable pre set quizzes and surveys, but for just getting the information from students I need – there isnt really any reason why a google form wouldnt suffice. I did use Mentimeter in another assignment, where I assigned a reading to students and asked them to pull information from the article and form a 10 question quiz about the content to test their fellow peers on. I thought it would be a useful introduction to quiz making and technolgy, while it also forces them to prove their understanding of the reading if they are going to be quizzing other students on it.

Within our group, I introduced the site to our other members and described how I have used it before (in the lesson mentioned above). I showed the website to my group members, and we all decided what aspect of it we would use and adapt to our own teaching subjects. I thought the project was a good experience, and it was helpful to introduce others to MentiMeter. Overall, I found the other presentations really exciting to watch and loved seeign the other technologies the groups decided to focus on.

Additionally, here is a screencast I captured using screencastify that allows you to view our presentation!